Southfield, Michigan

Our Detroit
area facility

This is where every RackWorks VPS actually lives. Tier-grade building, real redundancy, and we're on-site with the Detroit Internet Exchange so your traffic isn't taking the scenic route.

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80,000 sq ftRaised floor space
20 MWTotal power
DET-iXOn-site exchange
90+Member networks
99%Uptime SLA
Server cabinets on the Southfield, Michigan data floor
The Facility

The building.

80,000 sq ft of raised floor, 20MW of power, and it's not some converted office space, it's built to run this kind of hardware. We picked it because it's carrier-neutral, meaning we're not stuck with one upstream if something goes sideways.

Cross-connects are straightforward, and you're not locked into a single upstream path. The building also anchors the Detroit Internet Exchange, making it one of the densest interconnection hubs between Chicago and Toronto.

Internet Exchange

DET-iX lives here too.

The Detroit Internet Exchange is in the same building. 90+ networks peer here, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Cloudflare, so traffic to those doesn't leave the facility. That's lower latency for free, basically.

90+
Member Networks
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Akamai, Cloudflare
2.5 Tbps
Peak Traffic
Largest fee-free IX in the world
89%
IPv6 Support
Full /64 allocation on every RackWorks server
123Net fiber optic cable infrastructure
Network Infrastructure

Multiple paths in, multiple paths out.

Direct connections to AT&T, Level 3, Cogent, and Comcast mean if one upstream has a bad day, you don't notice. No single point of failure between you and the internet.

Multiple upstream paths mean no single carrier dependency and automatic failover when a path goes down. Combined with on-site DET-iX access, your traffic takes the shortest path to wherever it's going.

Live latency from Detroit
Measuring
<1ms Detroit Metro
... Chicago
... Toronto
... New York
... Atlanta
... Dallas
... Los Angeles
... Miami
... Seattle
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DET-iX Peers
Networks peering in this building
Same backend Looking Glass runs on. Peer count is from its latest scan there. Full diagnostics on Looking Glass
Real Hardware

Real hardware. Real numbers.

Geekbench 6 and iperf3, run on the exact box customers land on when they check out. Not a spec sheet, an actual test.

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Geekbench 6, Single-Core
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Geekbench 6, Multi-Core
— Mbps down
— Mbps up
Same numbers as the full report on Looking Glass. See the full benchmark report
Power Infrastructure

Power that doesn't quit.

20MW total capacity, 2(N+1) cooling redundancy, dual power paths to every rack, diesel backup with fuel on-site. If one path fails, you'd never know.

20 MW
Total power capacity
2(N+1)
Cooling redundancy
A + B
Diverse power feeds per rack
UPS units and server infrastructure on the 123Net data floor
123Net data floor with server cabinets
Data Floor

Where your VM actually runs.

Hot/cold aisle containment, raised floor, N+1 cooling. Boring stuff, but it's the boring stuff that keeps your server from cooking itself in July.

Every cabinet is monitored for power draw, temperature, and access in real time.

The Facility

Inside our Southfield facility.

Data hall with raised floor and white server cabinets in Southfield, Michigan
Data hall, raised floor
Power distribution switchgear in Southfield, Michigan
Power distribution
Diesel backup generators outside the Southfield, Michigan facility
Diesel backup generators
The Facility

Take a tour.

Step inside our Southfield facility. 80,000 square feet of purpose-built infrastructure, on camera.

Southfield, Michigan data center facility tour
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Security and Compliance

Locked down, on paper and in person.

Physical Access
  • 24/7/365 on-site NOC technicians
  • Multi-factor authentication at all entry points
  • Interior and exterior CCTV coverage
  • Audited access logging
  • Remote management and monitoring
Fire Protection
  • Early warning smoke detection
  • Clean agent suppression systems
  • Zone-isolated suppression
  • Regular third-party testing
Facility Certifications
SOC 2 Type II SSAE 18 PCI-DSS ready HIPAA compliant
Why RackWorks

A building doesn't run your server. We do.

Plenty of companies rent space in this same facility. Here's what you actually get with RackWorks on top of it.

50+
One-click apps
WordPress, Nextcloud, Gitea, Immich, and dozens more. Pick it, click it, it's running.
NVMe + SSD
Real storage
No spinning disks anywhere in the stack. Every plan runs on solid-state storage.
99%
Uptime SLA
In writing, not just a badge on a footer.
24/7
Support that answers
Real humans, not ticket bots. We're on it fast.
Deploy in Detroit

Put your workload in this building.

Every RackWorks VPS runs from this Southfield, Michigan facility with Detroit-IX connected upstream routing. Pick the platform that fits your workload.

KVM VPS LXC Containers VDS Windows RDP

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